The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in World Languages and Cultures (WLC), with separate tracks in French, German, Romance Languages, or Spanish, is a comprehensive liberal arts degree in the language, literature, and culture of the student’s choosing. Students (non-native and native speakers) will develop thorough linguistic proficiency in combination with analytical and critical skills that will allow them to function effectively in multiple interlingual, cross-cultural contexts.
The B.A. in WLC affords students the opportunity to read and study great writers, thinkers and artists in their original language: Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Fellini, Ferrante, Rabelais, Montaigne, Voltaire, Rousseau, Camus, Beauvoir, Renoir, Godard, Truffaut, Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kafka, Lang, Dürer, Ernst, Klee, Cervantes, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Darío, Neruda, Allende, Buñuel, Almodóvar, del Toro, Picasso, Kahlo, Velázquez, Rivera, Dalí. Don’t settle for someone else’s translations, give yourself the skills and tools to practice translation yourself. All of our language majors have the opportunity to take courses in translation, or literary study, or linguistics, or cultures.
Majors are given the flexibility to follow their specific interests in this degree that leads to careers in international affairs, academics, law, diplomacy, medicine, science, hospitality, communications, travel, fashion, business, politics, journalism and the arts.
Please see the UNLV College of Liberal Arts, World Languages and Cultures web page for information about department programs, faculty and facilities. Degree worksheets and 4/5 year plan for the major are available on the UNLV Degrees Directory.
Available Options
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Romance Languages
- Spanish
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